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LEADER: 03475cam a2200373I 4500
001 ocm01496863
003 OCoLC
005 20191109072456.2
008 750801s1923 mau 000 0 eng
010 $a 23005545
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035 $a(OCoLC)01496863
050 00 $aPR625$b.A7
082 04 $a822$bAr2o
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aArcher, William,$d1856-1924.
245 14 $aThe old drama and the new;$ban essay in re-valuation,$cby William Archer ...
260 $aBoston,$bSmall, Maynard and Company$c[©1923]
300 $aviii, 396 pages$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aThe essence of drama -- Three centuries in outline -- Elizabethan facilities and licenses -- Indeterminate place and time -- The soliloquy and the aside -- the convention of disguise -- Horrors -- Blank verse -- Five Elizabethan masterpieces -- The Duchess of Malfi -- The broken heart -- The maid's tragedy -- Philaster -- The revenger's tragedy -- Five Elizabethan masters -- Jonson -- Chapman -- Marston -- Middleton -- Massinger -- The Elizabethans and the moderns -- Pinero -- Stanley Houghton -- Shaw -- Barrie -- Galsworthy -- Granville-Barker -- Three test questions -- Restoration romance and tragedy -- Dryden -- Lee -- Otway -- Rowe -- Southerne -- The Betterton school of acting -- Restoration comedy -- An insanitary product -- Latterday apologetics -- The convention of wit -- Etherege -- Wycherley -- Congreve -- Vanbrugh -- The comic actors -- The short view and after -- Farquhar -- Cibber -- Steele -- Fifty years of stagnation -- Label names -- Goldsmith and Sheridan -- Reasons for stagnation -- The "Palmy days" of acting -- Prose melodrama -- Lillo -- Moore -- Cumberland German romanticism -- Colman the Younger, Holcroft and Morton -- Sheridan Knowles -- Bulwer Lytton -- The drama at Apogee -- The adaptive age -- Influence of Scribe -- A glimmer of dawn -- Thomas William Robertson -- Relapse to adaptation and puerility -- James Albery -- H.J. Byron -- W.S.Gilbert as playwright and librettist -- Daybreak at last -- Heralds of the Renascence -- The melodramatists -- Sydney Grundy -- The early Pinero -- Henry Arthur Jones -- Haddon Chambers -- R.C. Carton -- Oscar Wilde -- The coming of Ibsen -- The Theatre Libre -- Pinero's maturity -- The second Mrs. Tanqueray to Mid-channel -- James Matthew Barrie -- The intellectuals -- The stage society -- The Vedrenne-Barker management -- George Bernard Shaw -- H. Granville-Barker -- John Galsworthy -- John Masefield -- The repertory movement -- Local drama -- The Irish theatre -- Synge, Yeats and Lennox Robinson -- The Manchester school -- Stanley Houghton -- The little theatre in America -- Recapitulation -- The evolution of modern drama -- An art of pure imitation.
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650 0 $aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aEnglish drama.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00910737
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aArcher, William, 1856-1924.$tOld drama and the new.$dBoston, Small, Maynard and Company [©1923]$w(OCoLC)572677937
938 $aKirtas Technologies, Inc.$bKRTS$n599522
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